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We have been covering the Cultural Heritage Bill’s passage through the House of Representatives. It is intended to present a regime for registration and maintenance of historical assets including buildings, and is a quid pro quo for the Downtown Rejuvenation Project focusing on the Commercial Center, City Hall and House of Culture/Government House. Fort George […]
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Patrick Faber hit back with a reminder that both Liberty Hall and the Supreme Court were in some disrepair years ago. He countered the allegation that the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) was all about cocktail parties and not about advancing living culture, pointing to efforts […]
News Five was able to pigeon-hole Prime Minister Dean Barrow for a quick interview following the sitting. We asked first about the U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons report. This year, we have been named as the worst trafficking offender in Central America, and comparable only to Haiti and Suriname in the Caribbean. The report […]
Two topics addressed on the adjournment are carrying a lot of currency at the moment. While Belize City has been mostly crime and murder-free for a few weeks, there has been a spike in murders across the Cayo District dating back to 2016. It has been largely concentrated in the villages immediately west of the […]
The Cayo South Area Representative also called out the officer commanding Belmopan, Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett. Gillett told News Five on Monday that while the search was continuing for murder victim Mark Mendez, police would actively pursue those who burned tires on the highway last Saturday for causing a disruption of traffic activity. The senior […]
This morning, business owners and promoters gathered at City Hall to take on Mayor Bradley in open forum, following last week’s abrupt decision to enforce noise abatement regulations within the area of the entertainment strip. While the Department of the Environment has sided with the mayor, his councilors aren’t fully in support of the brash […]
The mayor also announced today that the City Council will be introducing a new trade license regime in the coming days. According to Mayor Darrell Bradley, the new system will cause a decline in revenue which local government currently collects since it standardizes the fees that are being paid by certain businesses. Bradley says payments […]
It is estimated that the municipal government stands to collect one million dollars less; monies which Mayor Bradley says will be realized through other means. One option to regain those monies is through the sale of personalized license plates which would only allow CitCo to recover half of those losses. Reporter “What is the […]
A villager from San Joaquin, Corozal, this morning lost his life in a horrific way. He was attacked with a machete and chopped to the head. Twenty one year old Amilcar Omar Morales Gonzalez and his close friend twenty year old Doniver Ruano had been partying throughout Wednesday night. This morning at around three they […]
Written on June 29, 2017 | Posted in
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On Monday, we told you about the store manager who was robbed over the weekend by two men who lay waited him at the airstrip in Ranchito, Corozal. Today, police say they have looked at surveillance footage but it has not been very useful because the video quality is poor but it does confirm that […]
Written on June 29, 2017 | Posted in
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Four years ago, Belize ranked among the Tier Two nations in the U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons report. This year, we have been named as the worst trafficking offender in Central America, and comparable only to Haiti and Suriname in the Caribbean. The recently released report states bluntly, “The Government of Belize does not […]
ACP Chester Williams formally bid farewell to Belize City this afternoon during an official sendoff organized by his colleagues at Eastern Division South. The respected top cop assumes a new role with the Belize Police Department on July first, a desk job in Belmopan as head of the Professional Standards Branch. But it’s a controversial […]
The public hearings of the Senate Special Select Committee resumed today with Immigration Clerk Ady Pacheco reappearing before the senate panel. We will have highlights of that testimony later on, but first to a story which developed on the fringes of today’s hearing in Belmopan. Former Ministers of Immigration and Nationality Carlos Perdomo and Elvin […]
The Minister characterizes Burgess’ statements as “hearsay” without any basis or foundation. But when questioned about whether Burgess’ testimony is not helpful, he contended that the Committee ought to limit itself to what is verified in the report and not accept the “opinions” of those such as Burgess, but stick to the facts. Anthony […]
According to the Minister, he has regularly recommended both constituents and acquaintances for a variety of Government services during his time in office. In the case of visa requests, that number is minimal, and while he did not personally vet the individuals who came to him apart from the recommendation of his contacts, the onus […]
Immigration officer Ady Pacheco was the sole witness this morning. She was thoroughly grilled by the members of the Committee on various cases and scenarios resulting in improper granting of nationality, visas, and permanent residence. One such case is that of Peter Dahlstrom, the Swedish national who married a Belizean and twenty years later sought […]
Pacheco was also questioned about the case of the Harmouch family of San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye, who appeared to recruit a powerful ally in area representative Manuel Heredia Junior. In the case of Mohammed Harmouch, he was interviewed for nationality but was not recommended by the Officer in Charge, Gordon Wade. However, Gertrude Armstrong, […]
The Auditor General’s Report details many instances of persons being granted passports illegally. But the Audit Department’s search uncovered thousands of blank passports that were simply reported as missing or possibly stolen. Pacheco indicated that as with many things, the Department did nothing with regard to locating and restoring these important documents, which were re-introduced […]
Former Minister Elvin Penner is home tonight on bail; this afternoon he was arraigned for manslaughter by negligence of Kenrick Myvette, a motorist who was killed on Friday night. Penner was heading to San Ignacio in his SUV and Myvette was coming from San Ignacio on his motorbike when the collision took place on the […]
It had been expected, but the loss of twenty-four year old Mark Mendez of Teakettle, Cayo District, hurts no less for his family and the village. The five-day saga that brought out such anguish came to an end on Monday evening, when hunters stumbled across his decomposing body in the forests between Teakettle and Ontario […]
Written on June 27, 2017 | Posted in
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Police are looking, but no one has been detained for the murder of twenty-one year old San Ignacio resident, Akeem Guzman. Guzman was shot once to the back by a masked man on Sunday morning as he visited with a friend at a house off Flamingo Avenue. He was rushed to the San Ignacio Community […]
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The images of a seemingly drunken cop captured by video and posted on social media has been trending all day. The cop, dressed in uniform, has been identified as Police Constable 1319 Florencio Rash. He is attached to precinct one in Belize City, but it has not been confirmed if the incident occurred in Belize […]
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Police are also turning to the public for assistance in locating a man believed to be responsible for the murder of Pedro Pol, an elderly shopkeeper from the village of August Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk District. The suspect is Amin Ricardo Cho, a twenty-six-year-old resident from the nearby village of Guinea Grass. Cho […]
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Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley has found himself in quite a pickle, following a leaked memo last Thursday in which he single-handedly served notice to bar owners operating in the vicinity of B.T.L. Park. Entertainment activities in that area of Newtown Barracks have ground to a screeching halt since Friday, as several establishments, including the […]
On Friday afternoon, the Belize City Council held a caucus meeting to address the issue of the entertainment strip. News Five understands that a majority of the councilors who attended that meeting objected to the mayor’s heavy-handed approach. He says that the overnight decision is neither knee-jerk nor reactive. Isani Cayetano “All of that […]
